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DockerCon 2018 Speakers

The DockerCon Review Committee has been working hard to build a bigger and better program that reflects the diversity of the Docker ecosystem and community. From Docker use cases at large and innovative corporations, to advanced technical talks and hands-­on lab tutorials, DockerCon will have sessions adapted to every expertise levels and domain of interests. Each conference day will start with a general session in the morning, followed by breakout tracks.

Tim Hockin

Tim Tyler

Tonis Tiigi

Tony Pujals

Wellington Figueira da Silva

Yuri Shkuro

Yuvraj Mehta

Zack Butcher

Nassim is a security engineer at Docker where he focuses on designing
and creating new security features for the container ecosystem and
making existing ones as usable as possible. Nassim previously spent a
couple of years working on hobby kernels and reverse-engineering
competitions before interning in the Trusted Execution team at Apple.

Abhi is a Software engineer at Docker, focusing on Kubernetes networking and containerd integration. Previously he worked at Cisco systems. As a core contributor to Contiv (Cisco), Abhi has helped build CNI and CNM network plugins for Kubernetes and Docker. Abhi’s expertise lies in CRI,CNI and CNM. You can catch him on Twitter @aprativadi or even find him by the Docker stall to chat.

Ada is a support engineer working with Docker’s largest customers. An open-source enthusiast, fan of metal music, and an avid member of the #docker community channel on freenode, Ada started on her Docker journey in 2016 as a Linux system administrator in Asheville, NC and quickly fell in love with it.

Adrian has been involved with containers from the early days of Docker and authored the O’Reilly book “Using Docker” (https://atlas.oreilly.com/oreillymedia/using-docker). He is currently Chief Scientist at Container Solutions, a pan-european company focusing on consulting and product development for microservices and containers. Adrian tweets @adrianmouat

Ali is Co-founder and CEO for StackRox. Prior to StackRox, Ali was the Founder & CTO of Cyphort and led the company’s product strategy, research, and technical initiatives. Previously, Ali consulted numerous Fortune 100 companies, including Google, Microsoft, PwC, and Visa. Ali has also worked with government intelligence agencies and defense contractors.

Alena HallSenior Cloud Developer Advocate/Engineer

Alena Hall works on Azure focusing on big data and large scale distributed systems. Previously – Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft Research. Alena has more than 10 years of experience in the software engineering industry with a focus on distributed cloud programming, real-time system modeling, high load and performance, big data analysis, data science, functional programming, and machine learning. She is an elected member of the F# Software Foundation’s board of trustees. Alena holds a master’s degree in computer science and information technology.

Alex IankoulskiPrincipal Software Architect

Alex Iankoulski is a DockerCon alumni. He was inspired when he attended DockerCon for the first time in San Francisco in 2015 and since then has become known as a Docker evangelist among his colleagues and throughout the enterprise. Since 2015, Alex has attended DockerCon every year. He has been building software using Docker and helping accelerate the pace of innovation, promote sharing, and reuse of software. Alex has 20+ years of experience in the software industry. He is currently a Principal Software Architect for Data Science and Analytics at Baker Hughes, a GE Company where he focuses on enabling deep learning scientists and analytics experts to bring algorithms and new modeling techniques from prototype to production using containers. He believes that good tools get out of the way, empower users to go fast and enable them to stay focused on what they do best. What he likes best about Docker is that the answer is always “yes!”

Alex Ellis is the lead and author of the award-winning open-source serverless project OpenFaaS. Alex has 12 years of experience writing enterprise software and scaling distributed systems for over 500k clients. He is well known in the cloud and container community where he mentors and writes on all things tech from Docker to Raspberry Pi.

Alex Qin is a Brooklyn based software engineer and educator. She cares deeply about access to computer science education, and about leveraging technology to create positive social change. She is the Director of Technology at Gakko, a global educational collective that builds spaces, experiences & tools to reclaim the magic of learning, and is currently working on opening Gakko NYC, a school for the coders and musicians of tomorrow. She is also the founder and lead teacher of the Code Cooperative, where formerly incarcerated individuals learn to code to address issues they’ve identified in the criminal justice system. Prior to joining Gakko, she was the Web Engineering Team Lead at Skillshare and the Curriculum Director at Coalition for Queens. She holds a B.S. in Computer Science from New York University. Alex tweets @alexqin

Andrea GallegoCTO of BCG Gamma

When you have to say “YES” to everything, what does that really mean?

The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) is a global management consulting firm that advises industry leading companies on value creation strategies, innovation, transformation, supply chain management and much more. BCG provides recommendations and analytics that are custom tailored to the needs of each client. To do this BCG is transforming what used to be presentations and manual models into software that is prototyped and distributed to their client to run on their infrastructure – in effect changing the way BCG delivers value.

However the productization process poses unique challenges and opportunities. Their clients have every type of infrastructure and application stack within their IT environments, how can BCG ensure that the custom built analytics applications will operate well at scale in their client’s production environment – especially when it is an environment that they don’t control? The bespoke nature of the BCG business led the team to embark on an engineering led journey to containerization with Docker. Attend this session to learn more about the approach, challenges and how BCG is enabling transformation with Docker Enterprise Edition.

Andrew Hromis is a Solution Architect at Docker where he advises on microservice deployments and migrating workloads to the cloud. Andrew has a history of increasing productivity through DevOps practices and automation. Andrew tweets @hromis

Andrew is VP of Product at Scytale, the steward of the SPIFFE project. Andrew is an engineer and entrepreneur who builds tools that help simplify software development. Prior to co-founding Scytale, Andrew was a Product Manager on Google’s Cloud Platform extending Compute Engine to allow customers to easily scale workloads, and was Google’s first Continuous Delivery PM (working on the Spinnaker and Container Builder projects). As an Australian in the San Francisco Bay Area, Andrew spends most of his spare time trying to sell his Midwestern wife on the virtues of Vegemite.

Andrew is the Lead Federal Sales Engineer at Docker. He is an active participant in the government technology and security ecosystem and in his role at Docker, spearheads the development of container compliance standards in collaboration with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Andrew tweets @Andrew_Weiss

Andy ClemenkoSolutions Architect

Andy Clemenko has been putting out virtual and real fires for years. Andy has been a System Administrator/Engineer for over 20 years and a volunteer firefighter for over 15 years. He has enjoyed building solutions from the ground up. Building everything from bare metal to virtual machines to big data, and now containers. Lately he has been working with hundreds of customers and agencies engineering secure supply chains. And when not being a firefighter/engineer he is an avid cyclist and dad to two awesome little kids.

Anshul PundirSenior Software Engineer

Anshul Pundir is a software engineer with an interest all things distributed. At Docker, he is an engineering lead and maintainer on swarmkit, the docker native cluster orchestration system for containers.Previously, Anshul was at Pinterest, working on storage and data serving systems to power real-time use-cases. Before that, Anshul was an engineering lead at an startup team NetApp, building a all-flash distributed storage system from the ground up. Anshul enjoys traveling, eating, and traveling for eating.

Anil Karmel is the co-founder and CEO of C2 Labs, a company that partners with organizations on their digital transformation journey, from designing and implementing IT Strategic Plans to allow IT to move at the speed of business to a deep specialization in Application Rationalization and Transformation (ART) leveraging Secure Development Operations (DevSecOps) and its’ cutting-edge Research and Development (R&D) arm developing new standards and products to allow customers to Take Back Control. Formerly, Anil served as the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) Deputy Chief Technology Officer. Within NNSA, Karmel served as the RightPath Chief Architect and Management and Operations (M&O) Implementation Lead for a range of enterprise information technology (IT) solutions including cloud computing, enterprise mobility, unified communications and enterprise wireless. Anil tweets @anilkarmel

Karmel has been in the IT Industry for over fifteen years, working with various Fortune 500 companies and government in the areas of cloud, cybersecurity and collaboration. He and his team garnered industry and government accolades, including the SANS National Cyber Security Innovators Award for Cloud Security, InformationWeek 500 Top Government IT Innovators, ACT/IAC Excellence.gov Award and the DOE Secretary’s Achievement Award. His team at Los Alamos National Laboratory was named an ACT/IAC Excellence.gov Finalist two years running. Karmel is an internationally recognized speaker and has been featured at numerous IT conferences and webinars.

Anil serves as the co-chair of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cloud Security Working Group, leading the security working group to document best practices for application container and microservices security. He authored the NIST Definition of Application Containers and Microservices, SP 800-180 and co-chairs the Cloud Security Alliance’s (CSA) Application Container and Microservices Working Group documenting best practices for application containers and microservices.

Arun Subramaniyan leads the global data science & analytics team in BHGE Digital. His team focusses on developing deep learning augmented domain analytics across all aspects of the Oil & Gas industry. He joined BHGE Digital from GE Global Research Center in Niskayuna, NY where he led the development of the Digital Twin framework. The framework has enabled several thousand engineers in GE to build advanced models efficiently. The asset specific cumulative damage modeling techniques his team pioneered have saved millions of dollars for the several GE businesses. As a Six Sigma Master Black Belt, he developed advanced techniques and tools for efficiently modeling large scale systems like jet engines and accelerated design times by 3-4X. Arun is a prolific researcher with a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from Purdue University with over 50 international publications that have been cited more than 500 times. He is a recipient of the Hull Award from GE which honors early career technologists for their outstanding technical impact. Arun tweets @sarunkarthi

Ashley SunSenior Software Engineer (Infrastructure)

Ashley is a DevOps Engineer at LendingClub, where she works on cloud and container orchestration, infrastructure management and automating all the things! She strives to build awesome automation tools to support and improve the efficiency of the Technology organization and to maintain the reliability and stability of the site. Prior to LendingClub, Ashley received her B.S. from UC Berkeley where she enjoyed muay thai and cheer in addition to coding (and mostly breaking) things. In her free time she likes to eat food, especially if it contains a high amount of sugar.

Arjuna Rivera is Lockheed Martin’s Infrastructure and
International (I2) Labs Senior Manager and Principal Researcher
reporting into the I2’s Technology Office.
In this role, Arjuna is responsible for leading labs to drive
innovation, IT disruption and modern cloud usage across the
enterprise. As an idea incubator and technical facilitator for I2, I2
labs doesn’t just discover products, they bring experiences to
life.
Arjuna’s career spans more than 19 years of service to
Lockheed Martin. He joined Lockheed Martin in 1998 as a
systems engineer and worked assignments of increasing
responsibility within the corporation. Arjuna’s diverse background
includes, but not limited to experience in IT Infrastructure,
Applications, Testing, Security Engineering, Governance, Risk,
Compliance, Incident Response and general management.
Arjuna maintains several industry certifications; he has a MS in
Management with a concentration in IT from Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute and BS in Management Information
Systems from the University of South Florida. Arjuna tweets @realarjuna

Arun Gupta is a Principal Open Source Technologist at Amazon Web Services. He focuses on everything containers and open source at AWS. He is responsible for CNCF strategy within AWS, and participates at CNCF Board and technical meetings actively. He has built and led developer communities for 12+ years at Sun, Oracle, Red Hat and Couchbase. Prior to that he led engineering teams at Sun and is a founding member of the Java EE team.

He has extensive speaking experience in more than 40 countries on myriad topics and is a JavaOne Rock Star for four years in a row. Gupta also founded the Devoxx4Kids chapter in the US and continues to promote technology education among children. A prolific blogger, author of several books, an avid runner, a globe trotter, a Docker Captain, a Java Champion, a JUG leader, NetBeans Dream Team member, he is easily accessible at @arungupta.

Brandon Mitchell has helped clients go from learning what Docker is to deploying Docker EE in production, and spends any free time answering questions on StackOverflow. He is a Docker Certified Associate and Docker Accredited Instructor. Brandon tweets @sudo_bmitch

For 20 years Bret has built, and operated systems from 4 to 4.000, and helped over 13.000 people learn dev and ops topics. He is a Docker Captain, the author of the wildly popular Docker Mastery series on Udemy, and also provides DevOps style consulting & workshops with a focus on immutable infrastructures, automation, containers, and orchestration. Bret’s an occasional shell, web, and JavaScript developer. He spends his free time in Virginia’s local, thriving tech scene helping lead local Code for America and Docker Meetups. Bret basically spend his days helping people, and giving high fives. He lives at the beach, writes at bretfisher.com, prefers dogs over cats, and tweets at @bretfisher

Brett InmanInfrastructure Engineer

Brett is a member of the Infrastructure team at Docker. The team is tasked with providing the tools and resources to turn containers into scalable production services, with a focus on Docker Hub, Store, and Cloud. Brett has worked at several startups running infrastructure and tooling for SaaS applications.

Brian Christner hails from Arizona but now resides in the Alps of Switzerland. Brian’s spent a large portion of his career in the casino industry where he made sure the house always won. Brian is co-founder of 56K.Cloud and a nominated member of the Docker Captain’s program and a seasoned cloud architect. He is also a cloud subject matter expert in the topics of Docker, Cloud Native, DevOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and of course container monitoring. Brian is passionate about advocating for cloud and containers. When Brian is not busy trying to containerize everything he can be found riding his mountain bike or skiing in the Swiss Alps. Brian tweets @idomyowntricks

I am a 3x entrepreneur, most recently as co-founder and CEO of Iron.io where we grew a multi-million dollar ARR business helping pioneer serverless computing including some of the earliest usages of the term “serverless” in 2010. Sorry for that. We sold the company in 2017 and joined Oracle.I am now Vice President of Serverless at Oracle, currently leading The Fn Project, open source serverless FaaS platform and orchestration.

Former musical theatre actress and Hackbright Academy graduate, Chloe is now a Developer Evangelist at Sentry. Pre-Hackbright, she spent her nights and weekends performing in the Bay Area as a singer/actress and worked in tech by day. To support her theatre career, she started to learn to code on her own through online resources. Perhaps the only engineer you’ll meet who has been in “Hairspray”, “Xanadu”, and “Jerry Springer: the Opera”- she is passionate about bringing people with non-traditional backgrounds into the world of tech. If you’re trying to place her face, yes- she’s the young woman giving the awkward thumbs up in the “What It’s Like to be a Woman at a Tech Conference” article (which she also wrote). Chloe is also the organizer of TechLadyPicnic (a SF women in tech meet-up group), as well as the hostess/organizer of Sentry Scouts (a camp themed monthly tech meet-up… yes there are patches for each meet-up). In February of 2018 she was named one of the “200+ Thought Leaders in Crypto and Blockchain” and still knows absolutely nothing about Blockchain… however, a quick Google search of her will provide you with getting started with Docker videos, observability articles, theatre reviews, tech blogs, and videos of her singing- enjoy! Chloe tweets @ChloeCondon

With a 10y journey rooted in the HPC parts of the german automotive industry, Christian started to support CAE applications and VR installations.
When told at a conference that HPC can not learn anything from the emerging Cloud and BigData companies, he became curious and was leading the containerization effort of the cloud-stack at Playstation Now.
Christian joined Docker Inc in 2017 to help push the adoption forward and be part of the innovation instead of an external bystander.
During the day he helps Docker customers in the EMEA region to fully utilize the power of containers; at night he likes to explore new emerging trends by containerizing them first and seek application in the nebulous world of DevOps. Christian tweets @CQnib

Christine is a Docker Solutions Engineer for the Public Sector team at Docker. She supports Federal Science Agencies and Institutions of Higher Education who have special interests in High Performance Computing. Christine previously developed software for DHS agencies in Washington, DC. Christine tweets @_clovett

Christopher HeistandFlight Software Lead

Flight Software Lead for NASA’s DART mission.

Christopher LiljenstolpeCTO & Co-founder

Christopher is the CTO and co-founder of Tigera, Inc, and the original
architect of Project Calico. Before devoting his life to making cloud
networking simple and secure, he gained plenty of practical experience
in how it was not ever thus, designing and running several OpenStack
clusters, and architecting some of the earliest SDN solutions at Big
Switch Networks.
He also ran architecture at two large carriers (Telstra - AS1221, and
Cable & Wireless/iMCI - AS3561), spent time in Asia as the IP CTO for
Alcatel, and run networks in Antarctica (hint, bend radius becomes
REALLY important at -50C). In his spare time he was foolish enough to
do two stints as a working group co-chair in the IETF. Occasionally
you can have the (mis-)fortune of hearing him speak at conferences and
the like.

As a Distinguished Engineer within IBM Cloud, Daniel is responsible for the technical strategy, and implementation of the containers and microservices platform available in IBM Cloud known externally as the IBM Cloud Container Service. Daniel has deep knowledge of container technologies including Docker and Kubernetes and has extensive experience building and operating highly available cloud-native services. Daniel is a member of the Steering committee and the Technical Steering committee for the Istio service mesh project.

Dan has been with Docker since June 2017 where he currently works with customers helping them design and architect solutions for their modernised applications.

He has been a contributor and now maintainer for InfraKit since it was released.

Prior to Docker he filled a variety of roles at HPE working on Opensource software to automate servers, storage and networking and at the European Space Agency building systems for missions. Dan tweets @thebsdbox

Darragh has a background in embedded system engineering originally, hacking on networks since thick-ethernet existed and feel’s back at home with enabling cloud technologies to interface with embedded IoT devices. With over ten years experience in IP networks and System Engineering, working for Akamai, Swisscom, Siemens and other technology companies. Now, as Co-Founder of 56K.Cloud, Darragh’s focus is on enabling DevOps in small and large organizations to adopt containers in both Software development and Operations. Darragh tweets @grealish

David Aronchick was the Senior Product Manager for the Google Container Engine and led product management on behalf of Google for Kubernetes. David has been helping to ship software for nearly 20 years, founding and being part of the management team for three different startups, as well as squeezing in time at Microsoft, Amazon, Chef, and now Google. David is co-founder of the Kubeflow project, an effort to help developers and enterprises deploy and use ML cloud-natively everywhere.

Lay security developer that has learned a lot of mistakes the hard way. David started off building authentication systems, moved on to encrypted cloud storage for a few years, and is now working on the Security Team at Docker, presently focused on securing software distribution. David tweets @endophage

David Yu is a partner solutions engineer at Docker who works with both Strategic and Regional Partners on delivering solutions using Docker Enterprise Edition. He works in San Francisco and joined the company in mid 2016. Prior to Docker, he worked at New Relic for 4 years ago and held senior roles in the sales engineering team prior to seeing the company successfully going public in late 2014. He was able to work in multiple different capacities for both sales in multiple segments and in partner business development throughout his tenure there.

Previous to New Relic, he worked at CollabNet as a Sales Engineer selling solutions related to managing and monitoring SVN and Git solutions. He is a UT Austin Computer Science Alum and moved from Austin, TX to San Francisco while employed as a staff software engineer for IBM.

Derrick has been with Docker since February 2018 where he currently consults customers on their containerization strategy and journey. He has been heavily involved in development, DevOps, customer success, and all things SDLC before landing a role where he now focuses on guiding companies in choosing the best-in-class software for their business goals.

Don BauerLead DevOps Engineer

Don Bauer started his career twelve years ago and has learned by doing in development, infrastructure, architecture and operations roles in both enterprise corporations and startups. He immediately recognized a common thread in each role that allowed him to focus on enabling teams and companies to succeed through standardization, simplification and automation. Don believes companies and teams succeed through transparency and experimentation without the fear of failure. In his current role, Don operates with one simple principle: to automate himself out of a job.

Eduardo SilvaSr. Software Engineer

Eduardo is an Open Source Software Engineer at Treasure Data. He currently leads the efforts to make Logging more scalable in Containerized and Orchestrated systems such as Kubernetes; as part of the Fluentd team, he is the maintainer of Fluent Bit: a lightweight log processor.

Eiichi is a Support Engineer in Docker’s Customer Success organization. His team troubleshoots various issues from enterprise customers. His focus is troubleshooting Windows EE engine issues and assisting Microsoft Support team. Prior to joining Docker, Eiichi supported various enterprise products at Adobe Tokyo, Ottawa, San Jose, and San Francisco. Eiichi tweets @eiichikitagawa ‏

Ekrem KocaguneliSenior Machine Learning Engineer

Ekrem Kocaguneli is a senior machine learning engineer at Pinterest. He uses his deep learning expertise to provide Pinterest users an engaging homefeed experience to help them discover and do what they love. He is currently working on multi-task learning to enhance the current deep neural net models powering Pinterest homefeed. Previously he worked on Pinterest monetization and developed click prediction models for search ads. He has also co-authored one book and more than 20 peer reviewed journal and conference papers on machine learning and its applications in practice.

Elaine works at Sentry on the Operations team as a software engineering intern. Prior to Sentry, she taught elementary school for four years then spent another four years as an assistant principal. As an administrator, she led her school’s adoption of a blended learning model, integrating personalized instruction across all grades, including pre-kindergarten! Passionate about data-driven decision making, Elaine aggregated multiple sources of raw student performance data, all collected in differing methods. After being, in essence, a human API for two years, she grew frustrated by traditional spreadsheet application’s ability to control input and taught herself SQL, ultimately leading her to pursue a career in software engineering. Elaine loves podcasts and improving her StarCraft 2 strategy.

I’m a Microsoft MVP, Pluralsight Author, and Developer Advocate at Docker, Inc. I’ve been architecting and delivering successful solutions with Microsoft technologies since 2000, most recently large-scale APIs and Big Data implementations in Azure, and distributed applications with Docker. Currently, I’m interested the expansion of the Microsoft stack outside of the normal boundaries; exploring the great opportunities opening up with .NET Core running on Linux, Windows Containers, and Docker running on Azure. I’m a regular speaker at events and user groups – in 2016 I spoke at Microsoft’s Future Decoded and TechDays Online, at the WinOps Conference, Docker London and London DevOps. In 2017 I’ll be speaking at NDC London, SDD, DevSum in Sweden, and DockerCon. Elton tweets at @eltonstoneman

Eric SmallingSolution Architect

Eric has 25 years of professional experience in enterprise software development and architecture, including build, test and deployment automation. He has been practicing DevOps concepts since long before the term was coined. On practically every project throughout his career, he has worn multiple hats: developer, automated testing evangelist, version control administrator and build system engineer. Eric has been a continuous integration advocate and implementer for nearly a decade, and a Docker user since 2013. A second generation software developer (his father was a SNOBOL coder in the 60s!), he grew up in the 1980s and was coding 8-bit machines in elementary school. In his spare time, he enjoys spending time with his wife and kids, traveling, photography and, of course, hacking on software.

Flavio Crisciani is the tech lead of the Docker networking team. The team is responsible for the network stack of the Docker Platform both with Swarm and Kubernetes orchestrators. Prior to Docker, Flavio worked at PLUMgrid, acquired in 2016 by vmware, focusing on virtual network function development in the kernel using eBPF. When he’s not working on technology projects, you can find him running or outdoors.

Francesc Campoy Flores is the VP of Developer Relations at source{d}, a startup applying ML to source code and building the platform for the future of developer tooling. Previously, he worked at Google as a Developer Advocate for Google Cloud Platform and the Go team. He’s passionate about programming and programmers, specially Go and gophers. As part of his effort to help those learning he’s given many talks and workshops at conferences like Google I/O, Gophercon(s), GOTO, or OSCON. When he’s not on stage he’s probably coding, writing blog posts, or working on his justforfunc YouTube series where he hacks while cracking bad jokes.

Franck DavaloDelivery Manager

Franck Davalo is the service manager of the Docker Platform Service Offer at Société Générale. He has been working on middleware infrastructures for many years, as developer, technical manager, consultant or architect. He likes to play with technology and to experiment the real life integration and the challenges that come with it. Setting up Société Générale Docker offer with a fine team and docker partnership is his actual commitment. Short nights and hair pulling is a price to pay.

Gareth Rushgrove is a product manager at Docker. He works remotely
from Cambridge, UK, helping to build interesting tools for people to
better manage infrastructure and applications. Previously he worked
for the UK Government Digital Service focused on infrastructure,
operations and information security. When not working he can be found
curating the Devops Weekly newsletter or hacking on software in
new-fangled programming languages.

Girish RanganathanPrincipal Architect

Girish is a software technologist who has played a pivotal role in architecting and developing a variety of large scale distributed systems. His recent interests include cloud native, microservices, service mesh and serverless. He strongly believes that simple ideas can go a long way into building efficient, reliable, secure and scalable systems. He is always on the lookout for what’s next and how it can be used to build better systems or improve existing ones.

Harish Jayakumar is a Lead Staff Engineer at Docker. He works closely with customers and the community in adopting Docker and Kubernetes in their company – from development to production. Outside of that, he is a regular speaker at Meetups in the Bay area, evangelizing and talking about Docker, Kubernetes, Infrastructure & DevOps. He has several years of experience working on infrastructure and systems management solutions both as a Product Manager and a developer. He tweets @harish_jkumar

Idit Levine is the founder and CEO of solo.io, a Boston-based company that develops tools to help the enterprise adopt and make the most of innovative cloud technologies. At solo, Idit lead the development of Gloo, the function gateway, Squash, a platform for debugging microservices applications, and UniK, an orchestration tool for unikernels.

Prior to founding solo.io, Idit was the CTO of the cloud management division at EMC and a member of its global CTO Office. Previously, Idit gained first-hand experience in many aspects of the cloud infrastructure, working for both startup and enterprise companies.

Jason Richling is the Director of IT at DaVita a healthcare company with a focus on kidney care and saving patients’ lives. He has almost 20 years of experience in technical engineering leadership and for the past 2+ years has been leading Davita’s journey into DevOps and Containerization. He thrives on taking on engineering challenges and strategically transforming large complex enterprise organizations. Jason tweets at @richlingjason

Jaya PolumuruSr. Director of Technology, Global Consumer Solutions

JP is the Sr. Director of Engineering/Technology for the Global Consumer Solutions, at Equifax Inc. Primarily focussed on driving technology strategy to build secure and scalable consumer web/mobile applications. Recently helped architect the Equifax “Lock and Alert” product into Docker Swarm using microservices as its backbone. Previously worked as a Engineering Leader at TrustedID Inc where he was named “key contributor” during the company acquisition. Very passionate about developer productivity, big data and cloud platforms.

Jay SmithCloud Customer Engineer

Jason ‘Jay’ Smith is a Cloud Customer Engineer at Google. He spends his day helping enterprises find ways move expand their workload capabilities on Google Cloud. He is currently on the Kubeflow go-to-market team, helping people containerize machine learning to improve portability and scalability. He has been building container based solutions since the early days of Docker and now enjoys finding new ways to implement the technology.

Jeff Murr is the Director of Container and Open-source Platforms at MetLife. An avid technologist, throughout his career he has worked for technology consumers and creators all focused on extreme value and stability for large global enterprises. For the past 5 years, Jeff has guided MetLife in its transition to cloud-native architectures through key partnerships with Microsoft and Docker. He is currently focused on modernizing legacy infrastructure and applications with PaaS, and container strategies aiding in building long-term value-based enterprise roadmaps for MetLife in key technology trends globally. Jeff tweets @jeffreymurr

I spent the first 20 years of my career holding various positions from R&D to project management.I embraced the DevOps movement and today I help my customer transform their IT and organisation to adopt containers and its eco-system.

Joffrey works as a software engineer at Docker where he worked on a wide array of open-source projects. He currently maintains Docker Compose as well as the Docker Python SDK. He studied software engineering at EPITA Paris and previously worked at DotCloud. Hobbies involve loud guitars and rolling dice.

Jonathan LeviPrincipal

John Harris is a Technical Account Manager at Docker. He works with customers to help implement and adopt container platforms with a focus on Kubernetes. Previously he ran Continuous Delivery and DevOps services for a London-based Docker partner & software consultancy. Outside of work he is active in the Seattle tech community where he co-leads CoffeeOps and Linux Meetup groups and speaks at various others, evangelizing all things containers and DevOps. He tweets at @johnharris85

Jonell TaylorPlatform Engineer

Jonell Taylor is a member of the container and open-source platforms team at MetLife. A recent UNCW graduate, she worked as a system administrator for 1 year before joining MetLife in 2015 where she was a database engineer for 2 years focusing on No-SQL DB’s. Currently Jonell works in the open source world and actively participates in numerous POC’s in the areas of PAAS, CAAS, BDAAS, Kubernetes & Docker.

Joy Qiao is a Principal Solution Architect in the AI & Research Group at Microsoft, where she is responsible for driving end-to-end AI/ML solutions on Azure among the partner eco-system. Joy has over 15 years of IT industry experience including 11 years at Microsoft working as technical lead/architect roles at various Azure & AI engineering teams, as well as senior consultant/architect in the Microsoft services team. Joy has mainly been focusing on Microsoft Azure, Big Data and Machine Learning technologies, leading and delivering Machine Learning, Big Data and Cloud-based solutions for enterprise customers and partners.

Justin Cormack is an engineer at Docker. He got interested in system software while working on operations, trying to stop it breaking, and became a C programmer by necessity not design. He has recently been working on building unikernels, improving usability of security, and distributed systems. He is a maintainer on the open source Docker project. Justin tweets @justincormack

Karthik Prabhakar is the Director of Solution Architecture at Tigera, where he helps customers with secure application connectivity designs leveraging open source projects that Tigera maintains or contributes to (such as Project Calico, Flannel, CNI, Istio, etc.). Karthik has assisted in the architecture of numerous containerized and cloud infrastructure deployments at scale.
Karthik has many years of deep experience with cloud platforms, as well as large scale network architectures, both from a product/solution architecture perspective and in deployment/operations. He is a frequent speaker at meetups, conferences, webinars and other events.

Kinnary Jangla is a senior software engineer on the homefeed team at Pinterest, where she works on the machine learning infrastructure team as a backend engineer. Kinnary has worked in the industry for 10+ years. Previously, she worked on maps and international growth at Uber and on Bing search at Microsoft. Kinnary holds an MS in computer science from the University of Illinois and a BE from the University of Mumbai. Additionally, she is an author of 2 published books with the 3rd on the way named “Everything Docker” (publisher: Apress). Kinnary tweets @kjangla

Lachlan Evenson is a cloud native evangelist and mercenary. Lachlan has spent the last two and a half years working with Kubernetes and enabling cloud native journeys. He is a believer in open source and is an active community member. Lachlan spends his days helping make cloud native projects run great on Azure.

As the Director of Engineering at CloudBees and a Docker Captain, Laura’s primary focus is making tools for other developers. At Codeship, she works on improving the Docker infrastructure and overall experience for all users of the CI/CD platform. Previously, she worked on several open source projects to support Docker in the early stages of the project, including Panamax and ImageLayers. She currently lives in Berlin. Laura tweets @rhein_wein

Laurent Bernaille worked several years as a consultant specialized in cloud, containers, and automation and helped organizations migrate to the public cloud, adopt containers and improve their deployment pipelines. He is now Staff Engineer at Datadog and works in the Compute team, which is responsible for setting up and scaling Kubernetes platforms.

Lee is the EMEA Practice Manager at Docker where he works with strategic Docker enterprise customers, providing technical leadership, deep technology expertise, and architecture experience. He previously worked at Atos as a senior enterprise architecture. In a previous life, he started and sold a software company in San Francisco. He is based out of Paris, France.

Lee CalcoteHead of Technology Strategy

Lee Calcote is the Head of Technology Strategy at Solarwinds, where he stewards strategy and innovation across the business. Previously, Calcote led software-defined data center engineering at Seagate, up-leveling the systems portfolio by delivering new predictive analytics, telemetric and modern management capabilities. Prior to Seagate, Calcote held various leadership positions at Cisco, where he created Cisco’s cloud management platforms and pioneered new, automated, remote management services.

In addition to his role at Solarwinds, Calcote advises a handful of startups and serves as a member of various industry bodies, including Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), the Distributed Management Task Foundation (DMTF) and Center for Internet Security (CIS). As a Docker Captain and Cloud Native Ambassador, Calcote is an organizer of technology conferences, an analyst, author, speaker in the technology community. Calcote holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a master’s degree in Business Administration from California State University, Fresno and retains a list of industry certifications.

Lin is a core contributor and maintainer on Istio. She is passionate about new technologies and love to play with them. She is a master inventor, currently, holds 100+ patents filed or pending with USPTO along with hundreds of articles published at IP.com.

Liz Rice is the Technology Evangelist with container security specialists Aqua Security, and also works on open source projects including manifesto and kube-bench. Prior to that she co-founded Microscaling Systems and was one of the developers of image inspection tool MicroBadger. When not writing code, or talking about code, Liz loves riding bikes in places with better weather than her native London. Liz tweets @lizrice

Luke is the CEO and Founder at his new venture, Dotmesh. He is also a Kubernetes SIG lead for SIG-cluster-lifecycle, where he was involved in developing the first version of kubeadm.
He previously worked on Developer Experience at Weaveworks, where he spoke and taught at conferences, meetups and trainings on cloud native topics such as container networking, monitoring with Prometheus, continuous delivery and OpenTracing.
Before that he was the CTO and Founder at ClusterHQ, where he got involved right at the start of the Docker and Kubernetes journey, collaborating closely with Docker and others to develop the first Docker volume plugin mechanism and build the first implementation of container persistence, Flocker.

Mark Church is a Product Manager at Docker focused on Platform Ops, Networking, and Storage. In Mark’s not-so-distant previous life he worked in the field helping companies design, implement, and service their container infrastructure. Widespread Docker evangelism and also thorough day-2 operationalization of container technology are the principles Mark used to make Docker projects successful in large organizations. Prior to Docker, Mark held a variety of engineering roles at Cisco Systems where he helped design web-scale data center networks for companies such as LinkedIn, Airbnb, and Salesforce.

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Meghdoot BhattacharyaDirector of Cloud Engineering

Meghdoot Bhattacharya is a Director of the Cloud Engineering team at PayPal, building the container platform for both legacy and modern applications and leading the large-scale container transformation efforts across the enterprise.

Michelle Casbon is a Senior Engineer on the Google Cloud Platform Developer Relations team, where she focuses on open source contributions and community engagement for machine learning and big data tools. Prior to joining Google, she was at several San Francisco-based startups as a Senior Engineer and Director of Data Science. Within these roles, she built and shipped machine learning products on distributed platforms using both AWS and GCP. Michelle’s development experience spans more than a decade and has primarily focused on multilingual natural language processing, system architecture and integration, and continuous delivery pipelines for machine learning applications. She especially loves working with open source projects and is an active contributor to Kubeflow. Her writing has been featured in the AI section of O’Reilly Radar. Michelle holds a masters degree from the University of Cambridge.

Michael Crosby, who has been a Docker open-source contributor since 2013, is a maintainer for Docker, containerd, runc, and TOB Chair for the Linux Foundation’s Open Container Initiative (OCI). He has been using and working on containers before containers were cool as well as finding ways to break them. Michael tweets at @crosbymichael

Michael DodgeArchitect

Spend most of my day in Java/Docker/AWS in the financial industry, running 300+ applications in Docker. Develop off-hours to learn and explore for home automation, weather, and aviation. Passionate about problem solving, optimization, and following emerging technology to better solve business needs and improve the developer experience. “Perfect is the enemy of good” and “the simplest solution is usually best”

Michael DucyDirector of Community & Evangelism

Michael Ducy currently works as Director of Community & Evangelism for Sysdig where he is responsible for growing adoption of Sysdig’s open source solutions. Previously, Michael worked at Chef where we held a variety of roles helping customers and community members leverage Chef’s open source and paid solutions, as well as implement the ideas and practices of DevOps. Michael has also worked in a variety of roles in his career including Cloud Architecture, Systems Engineering, and Performance Engineering. Michael holds a Masters in Computer Science from the University of Chicago and an MBA from The Ohio State University.

Michele is a cloud/security architect and runs the Microservices Practice and Security Practice at Solliance.net. Her background is primarily focused on distributed compute architectures and production implementations, plus consulting and product development in the identity and access management space. Michele tweets @michelebusta

Michael Letourneau is an IT Architect at Liberty Mutual. Michael has spent the last 20 years working in every aspect of IT. Michael has a passion for learning how new technology works and likes to keep as hands on as possible. Seeing a short demo of containers a few years ago convinced him that they were going to be something revolutionary. He brought that back to his management and has been advocating their adoption or working on their implementation since. He enjoys time with his four kids, a good podcast, a nice hike in the woods, zsh and vi.

Nicola Kabar is a Lead Solutions Architect at Docker where he helps strategic customers design and build scalable enterprise-ready solutions using the Docker platform. His focus areas include container networking, microservices, automation, and cloud architectures. Before Docker, Nicola was a lead Systems Engineer at Cisco where he focused on massively-scalable data center (MSDC) design and architecture for the large Web accounts (Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft).

Chief Technologist in the Strategic Innovations Group at Booz Allen Hamilton specializing in research, implementation, and integration of emerging technologies to Booz Allen’s federal government client base. He leads the firm’s efforts in containerization and distributed application architectures and thought leader for DevOps practices. He is passionate about Open Source, Containerization, Cloud Automation, DevOps, Data Center Transformation and integrating open-source software to push the capabilities of future IT infrastructure. He focuses on bringing leading edge technologies to enterprise systems for commercial and public sector clients.

Paris is a Developer Relations Program Manager on the Google Cloud Open Source Strategy team focusing on Kubernetes. She has 13 years of professional experience in attracting, retaining, and growing engineering talent for organizations and open source projects. She has also been organizing communities in one form or another for over 20 years, and at one point ran enough meetups to subsist solely on the free pizza leftovers.

In the Kubernetes community, Paris is a co-chair of the Contributor Experience Special Interest Group (SIG), subproject owner of many initiatives within the SIG, and an organizer of the worlds largest in person Kubernetes meetup, the Bay Area K8s group.

Patrick Chanezon is Chief Developer Advocate at Docker Inc. He helps to build Docker, the world’s leading software container platform, for developers and sysadmins.Software developer and storyteller, he spent 10 years building platforms at Netscape & Sun, then 10 years evangelizing platforms at Google, VMware & Microsoft. His main professional interest is in building and kickstarting the network effect for these wondrous two-sided markets called Platforms.He has worked on platforms for Portals, Ads, Commerce, Social, Web, Distributed Apps, and Cloud.

With over 25 years of experience in the computing industry, Peter currently works for GE Digital in San Ramon, California as a Software Architect. Hailing from a software engineering background, his experience ranges from financial systems, payment platforms, to mobile platforms, and now works in the Industrial IoT space. Born and raised in New York City, Peter is a graduate from Rochester Institute of Technology, married with three kids ages ranging from one to fourteen years old. Family along with his hobbies in music and computers keeps him a busy bee. Peter tweets @otob

Bob Vandette has over 30 years of experience designing and developing System Software and Hardware products. During his career, he has been involved in two successful startups and created his own company which eventually was sold to Sun Microsystems. Bob held several roles at Sun Microsystems and now Oracle involved in the development of Java Virtual Machine technology. Bob’s recent accomplishments include the creation of the Java SE Embedded product line, Java SE 8 Compact Profiles and Java 9 for Mobile platforms. Bob’s current focus is in the enhancement of Java for use in Cloud Containers and Serverless Cloud applications. His areas of expertise include: Java technology, Container technology, Embedded & Mobile Platforms, Virtual Machines and Emulation Technology.

Rashmi KumarSVP Data and Analytics

Rashmi Kumar is SVP Data and Analytics with McKesson based in San Francisco. In 4 years with McKesson she has also played the role of US Pharma CIO, and VP of Architecture and Product Management. She is a seasoned data and analytics leader with wide ranging experience in IT Leadership, consulting services, electric utilities, financial services, information technology, Media & Entertainment and steel industries. With more than 25 years of experience, Mrs. Kumar’s primary areas of focus include Data & Analytics, CTO/CIO office, strategic planning, EA, and large scale business process transformations.

Rob is the VP of Technical Operations at LendingClub. He fell in love with the process of writing software at the age of 8, graduated with a degree in Philosophy and has spent the balance of his career in financial services.

Robert TercekBest Selling Author, Vaporized

Every industry – established enterprises and feisty startups alike – will be entirely transformed and redefined by technology in the next five years. We’re entering an era defined by data, and Robert Tercek is helping organizations navigate through the massive changes, seize control and shape their future.

Tercek is navigating–and inventing–the future of digital media. With a rare combination of visionary thinking, hard-won practical insight and tireless passion for the way media shapes our world, Tercek is working to help organizations seize their own destiny by thinking creatively and taking decisive action. Tercek’s business strategies are informed by his personal experience as a pioneering executive and entrepreneur in disruptive startup ventures. He has created breakthrough entertainment experiences on every digital platform, including satellite TV, game consoles, broadband Internet, interactive television, and mobile networks.

Saad Ali is a senior software engineer at Google where he works on the open-source Kubernetes project. He joined the project in December 2014, and has led the development of the Kubernetes storage and volume subsystem. He serves as a lead of the Kubernetes Storage SIG, and is co-author and maintainer of the Container Storage Interface. Prior to Google, he worked at Microsoft where he led the development of the IMAP protocol for Outlook.com.

Sabree BlackmonTechnologist and Developer Advocate

Sabree is a Technologist and Developer Advocate at Scytale. He helps organize the SPIFFE and SPIRE open-source communities, while also mentoring engineers on application identity and security.
While he cut his technical teeth in military embedded systems, Sabree now enjoys solving complex engineering problems in cloud computing. Sabree was a cloud consultant for three years before joining Scytale and is passionate about helping enterprises and developers leverage open-source technologies.

Sanjoy MukherjeeSenior Software Engineer

Sanjoy Mukherjee is a Distinguished Engineer in DevOps and Cloud Engineering team at JCPenney. He is the pioneer behind JCPenney Digital transformation to cloud, container, microservices and open-source based platform. Prior to JCPenney he has worked in multiple startups and multinational companies.

Saruhan KarademirSecurity Engineer

Saruhan is a security engineer on the Windows team. He is primarily focused on securing Windows Containers, Hyper-V, and the Linux Subsystem. He likes long walks on the beach and elevation of privilege bugs.

Scott Coulton is a solutions architect with 10 years of experience in the managed services and hosting space. He has extensive experience in architecture, and rolling out systems and network solutions for national and multinational companies with a wide variety of technologies, including AWS, Puppet, Docker, Cisco, VMware, Microsoft and Linux. His design strengths are in cloud computing, automation and the security space.

Sean M. Kerner is an IT consultant, technology enthusiast and tinkerer, and has been writing for InternetNews since 2003. Sean writes on multiple topics including networking, Linux, open-source, application development, servers, database, cloud, security and of course virtualization and containers.

Sharon FrazierVice President, Innovation

Sharon Frazier is Vice President of Innovation at Franklin American Mortgage Company. Ms. Frazier is an entrepreneur that believes software should inspire and be a catalyst for creative disruption, whether that is igniting market dominance, shattering personal goals, or forging team cohesion. She is responsible for turning ideas into products, revenue generators, or growth catalysts through appropriate risk-taking and inventiveness; showing customers a new world, not just giving them a better view of the old world.In addition to her current role, Ms. Frazier is an active Advisor and Board member of two start-ups. Prior to Franklin American, Ms. Frazier has been an early employee, executive, or senior leader of a diverse array of companies and understands the nuances of validating product/market fit and continuous challenging of assumptions, the art of pivoting and the financial implications of decisions, as well as the necessary planning needed to hit strategic milestones and unfortunately the consequences of missing them.Ms. Frazier has been working in software and technology for over 30 years. She holds a Masters in Mathematics from the University of Pittsburgh and a Bachelors in Mathematics from Pennsylvania State University.

Srikanth BulusuEngineering Leader

Srikanth Bulusu is the head of DevOps and Cloud Engineering at JCPenney. His teams are responsible for transformation to cloud and the implementation of CI/CD practices for the omni-channel business. Prior to JC Penney, he was a release engineering and automation manager at Macys.com and a software engineer at top financial institutions. In his 10+ years of experience he has embraced automation and open-source technologies as a powerful tool for accelerating innovation and mentor’s others on how to adopt and integrate automation in their practices.

Stephen Day is a software engineer. His many contributions to Docker ecosystem projects include SwarmKit and the version 2 specification for the Docker Registry HTTP API, and evolving the available models for container image distribution. He currently works on containerd and as an OCI TOB member.

Stanley Zheng is a software engineer and technologist who loves coding as much as he enjoys technology communities. Right now he works at Cloudreach as a Cloud Software Engineer. On his freetime he co-organizes for CodeforAmerica through Code for Hampton Roads and Norfolk.js JavaScript Usergroup. If you are hungry or bored at any time, he is a self-described modern food anthropologist and is a living breathing Yelp.

Steven enjoys spending his time working with enterprise customers at the intersection of the Docker and Microsoft ecosystems. When not moving applications to Azure via containers, you can find him fiddling with his Dockerized home theater system.

Sujay is an ECM expert and now currently holds the Sr. DevOps Engineer position at Jabil. He plays a pioneer role in adoption of container technology / training at his work and is a community leader for Docker Penang meetup edition.

Ted Young is one of the lead maintainers of the OpenTracing project. He has been involved with OSS and distributed systems for over ten years. Previously, he worked on computer animation pipelines for VFX, national elections, and elastic compute platforms. Currently, he works at LightStep as their Director of Open Source Development.

Born and raised in a small town called Carrickfergus in Northern Ireland. I’ve been obsessed with computers since I got my first Commodore 64. I studied Computer Science and Business Administration at Queens University Belfast. During my gap year I worked at Sun Microsystems in Dublin and loved every second of it. After graduation I moved to Dublin and worked full time at Sun as a Java QA automation engineer. Other jobs included Configuration manager at Citigroup, systems automation engineer at Oracle and currently working at Demonware (Activision) as a build engineer. My free time is spent with my family, some blogging, playing about with new tech and lots of coffee drinking.
I’ve been incredibly lucky to work with some amazing engineers over the past 15 years and I feel that it’s my duty to pay that forward. I’m happy to mentor, teach, host Meetups, bootcamps etc. I like to work with those who are passionate about technology and the positive changes it can bring about in the world.

Till SchenkIT Infrastructure Architect

Till Schenk works as an IT infrastructure architect at Robert Bosch GmbH. He is the responsible architect of a worldwide available container platform that enables software developers and engineers to use modern container technologies for their daily work.

Tim is a Principal Software Engineer at Google, where he works on the Kubernetes and Google Container Engine (GKE). He is a co-founder
of the project, and he is responsible for topics like networking, storage, nodes, resource isolation, and cluster sharing. Before Kubernetes, he worked on Google’s Borg and Omega projects. Tim tweets @thockin

Tim started life as a Mechanical Engineer and spent over 20 years in the Semiconductor industry focusing on high performance computing, design automation, and Open Source compliance and evangelization. Tim particularly enjoys championing and promoting a DevOps culture and Social Coding, as well as building collaboration between development, engineering, and operations teams. Tim recently migrated to the Insurance industry and is a leader and senior contributor on MetLife’s innovation team – The ModSquad. In this role Tim is helping to drive transformative DevOps and Agile change as well as explore exciting new technologies.

Tonis Tiigi is a software engineer at Docker and a maintainer of Moby/Docker engine. He has recently been working on the builder features of the platform, for example, multi-stage builds, and is the author of Moby BuildKit project.

Known as mister beret, as Tom or as Wsilva is currently working for Easytaxi DevOps team. Docker Certified Associated, ZCE PHP 5.3 certified, Docker Community Leader in Sao Paulo Brazil, Devops Days Sao Paulo co-organizer and author of the book “Aprendendo Docker, Do básico a orquestração”, in english: Learning Docker, from basics to orchestration, published by Novatec editor in Brazil in 2016.

Yuri is a software engineer at [Uber Technologies](http://eng.uber.com/), working on distributed tracing, reliability, monitoring, and efficiency. Founder of [CNCF Jaeger](https://jaegertracing.io), a distributed tracing system, and co-author of [CNCF OpenTracing](http://opentracing.io), a vendor-neutral instrumentation API for distributed tracing.

Yuvraj MehtaGroup Product Manager

Yuvraj has over 10 years of experience in deploying, building and bringing to market enterprise software. At Docker, Yuvraj is part of the Product Management team, helping enterprises securely adopt Docker EE. Previous to Docker.

Zack is a Software Engineer at Tetrate. Previously he worked at Google as one of the core contributors to Istio. Prior to Istio he worked on a variety of teams across Google Cloud Platform, focusing on authorization, policy, data retention, and the internal system Istio draws from.